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Above the trees is the Water Tower, disguised as the House in the Clouds.

The central house was the post office until 1997. The further building is the Lord Nelson, whose sign has been moved to the car park. Note the classic bubble car of the period (right).

A real coach party - that is, a party using a coach and horses - arrives at the stable block at Haddon Hall. The bowler-hatted gentlemen alight to face the climb up to the house.

A shooting lodge became the Youth Hostel and later housed the post office.

In the 1960s, the pace of building new housing quickened. Caton is popular as a retreat for commuters, who enjoy the moorland country near by with its fine views of Morecambe Bay.

The hotel bedrooms extend over Woolworth's next door, Richmond's first chain store; it arrived c1935 and moved in 1980 to Bailey House, visible at the bottom of the Market Place.

His work is commemorated in a memorial near the seashore, on the site of a house where he lived.

Among its attractions are many fine country houses and cottages built from locally quarried stone that has mellowed to the colour of honey on butter.

The Central Stores, now owned by V A and A E Geach, is in business today and provides important service to the local community, while the house ahead with the gabled attic rooms is now

Modern houses proliferate in Tanworth now, but the old chestnut tree (glimpsed top left) still casts a shade over the green, and the Bell Inn (top and bottom left), across the road from the

Looking West We are looking across the lake to the houses in Durham Street, with the Presbyterian church roof in the centre of the picture, and the Holy Rood Roman Catholic church on

Converted to a house, the upper floor now has many more windows, including a dormer window above the weatherboarded section in the middle.

The Lifeboat House is now a museum dedicated to the history and development of the R.N.L.I.

Three hundred feet above the sea, this white-painted Victorian lighthouse housed a two-ton turntable operating the revolving light.

On the right is an Ind Coope pub, The Old House at Home, a landmark for bargees on the River Medway. The pub had been rebuilt in 1914 and had been in the family of Captain Ruthvens for 102 years.

The former Huntsman and Hounds public house is now mostly hidden by trees.

The house to the right with a corrugated iron roof, now demolished, shows a common solution to failing thatch.

Redevelopment of Daventry began in the early sixties under a scheme to house Birmingham overspill population.

Beyond is the White Horse, still in business, though the Northampton Brewery, with its NBC Star trademark, has long since passed into history.

In 1926, the Sands railway station closed and was converted to amusement arcades housing hundreds of slot machines; there was also a helter-skelter and a skating rink.

Today, the house has changed little, although the black barn has been demolished. Also, with the conversion of the railway from steam to electricity, the overhead wiring is strung along the skyline.

Today modern houses are interspersed with the cottages. Nearby, close to the church, older cottages with thatched roofs and latticed windows can be found.

It was in a half-timbered house near the top of the street in August 1485 that Henry Tudor spent the night before riding on to Bosworth to do battle and win the Crown.

One of the two houses on the left belonged to Seabrook's Farm, and the other was the vicarage.